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It must have been the Churchill connection.

I can only think of one DCM that has sold for more.

Group of 4: 221 T. Sjt Maj. T.J. Muggleworth SAC
QSA Bars CC; OFS; TVL
KSA Bars SA01; SA02
War and Bilingual Victory Medals
Services Rendered Badge SA 4051

Photocopies of his record of Service show that he served with Montmorency’s Scouts during the Boer War.

There are 6 copies of various documents that relate to his service in the SAC.

Photocopies of his WW I Record show that he was wounded in action at Delville Wood 17/07/16. Also confirmed Roll Call by Ian Uys. His service record also confirms his invalidity badge SA 4051.

Kaplan Auctions, February 2003

From the next City Coins auction, November 2020

Stormberg

After re-occupying Molteno on 23 February, Lt-Gen Gatacre ordered a reconnaissance towards the Boer positions at Stormberg.
Gatacre’s force was checked by a Boer Commando on Schoeman’s Farm and he ordered Captain the Hon. R H L J De Montmorency, 21st Lancers (legendary Omdurman VC recipient) with his Scouts and a body of mounted troops to advance and try to lure the Boers towards the position of his guns and infantry.

The mid-morning attempt by Capt De Montmorency to take Schoemanskop was thwarted by some 25 Boers who had beaten him to the summit.

De Montmorency and 2 men were killed in the first Boer volley and the rest of the Scouts were pinned down till 3:30pm. The losses in his small corps were: 2 officers and 4 other ranks killed, 2 other ranks wounded and one officer and 5 other ranks prisoner, of whom 2 were wounded.

QSA (1) CC (Scout W. Cooper, Montmorency’s Scouts)


Picture courtesy of City Coins

A corporal of Montmorency's Scouts



Source: Under the Union Jack Vol II

A clever capture: Smart work of Montmorency's Scouts

'Our correspondent writes: The night after the occupation of Bethulie and the crossing of the Orange River, Montmorency's Scouts having had information of a small party of armed Boers being in the neighbourhood, lay in ambush in a donga by the side of a road which the Boers would have to pass. They had not been there half an hour when seven armed Boers came along. They fell in the very arms of the ambush and tried to bolt, but they were immediately surrounded and taken prisoner. They all belonged to the Colesberg commando.'



Source: The Graphic 19 May 1900

Picture courtesy of Spink

QSA (3) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Scout F. Gush. Montmorency's Scouts)

Clasps verified on WO100/259p90. Medal issued 7 April 1909 to Mrs F Gush, Frankfort, Orange River Colony